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Looks like Colorado has lost another assistant, I believe this makes 6. Sal Sunseri the DL coach appears to have left, he was a very experienced College coach with stops at Alabama, Tennessee and the NFL. Replaced by Damione Lewis who was on staff as an analyst, he was an assistant DL coach in Seattle for a few years and an assistant athletic director of football/player development at FIU. Maybe he will do great, but it sure looks like a sizable downgrade. Sanders staff has been seriously downgraded this season, personally I think every replacement is a worse coach than their replacement.
Just another interesting thing on Colorado. Besides the interesting and unique way of building a roster that is small and lacks underclassmen, Sanders has replaced experienced and some very good assistants with coaches with very little experience but a lot of NFL playing time. Unconventional and not the way I would do it, but it is interesting to see how it works out. College experience of replacement coaches:
Lewis - DL - assistant athletic director of football/player development at FIU in 2019
Shurmur - OC - Stanford OL 1998, Michigan St TE, OL and ST 1990-1997, Michigan St GA 1988-89
Livingston - DC - Vanderbilt defensive quality control in 2011, Safeties at Furman in 2010
Loadholt - OL - Oklahoma offensive analyst 2022-23, Ole Miss offensive analyst 2020-21, UCF offensive assistant 2018-2019
Phillips - WR -Has a lot of experience mostly WR and passing game at Texas State, Houston, Baylor, SMU, Kansas, Oregon State, Utah State, Jackson State, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Dancy - OLB - HC Mississippi Valley State HC 2018-22, Mississippi Valley State DC 2015-2017, Paine DC 2014, Jackson State Safties 2012-2013
Actual P5 assistant coaching experience on staff is Shurmur back in 1988-98, and Phillips in short stints. That's it nobody else has been an actual P5 assistant before.
The 4 returning assistants
Hart and Mathis have only coached at Trinity Christian HS and Jackson State before Colorado.
Harrell, Bartolone have experience at a variety of small college and G5 schools like Alabama State, FAU, Howard, Bowie State, Morgan State, Florida A&M, Texas Southern, Whittier College, St Lawrence, Carleton College, and Nevada then they both coached for Sanders at Jackson State.
No wonder they keep bragging about years in the NFL as the collective experience at Major College Football is very poor.
So what where these 6 new coaches doing before hired by Sanders:
Shurmur - Unemployed for a year after Broncos fired him
Livingston - Secondary coach for Bengals
Loadholt - Oklahoma Offensive Analyst
Lewis - hired as an analyst from Seahowk assistant DL coach then promoted to DL coach this year
Phillips - Hamilton Tiger-Cats WR coach
Dancy - hired as an analyst from Mississippi Valley State HC (he resigned but was 10-38 as HC), then promoted to OLB coach this year
The other 4 Hart, Mathis, Harrell and Bartolone came from Jackson St with Sanders before last season.
Just another interesting thing on Colorado. Besides the interesting and unique way of building a roster that is small and lacks underclassmen, Sanders has replaced experienced and some very good assistants with coaches with very little experience but a lot of NFL playing time. Unconventional and not the way I would do it, but it is interesting to see how it works out. College experience of replacement coaches:
Lewis - DL - assistant athletic director of football/player development at FIU in 2019
Shurmur - OC - Stanford OL 1998, Michigan St TE, OL and ST 1990-1997, Michigan St GA 1988-89
Livingston - DC - Vanderbilt defensive quality control in 2011, Safeties at Furman in 2010
Loadholt - OL - Oklahoma offensive analyst 2022-23, Ole Miss offensive analyst 2020-21, UCF offensive assistant 2018-2019
Phillips - WR -Has a lot of experience mostly WR and passing game at Texas State, Houston, Baylor, SMU, Kansas, Oregon State, Utah State, Jackson State, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Dancy - OLB - HC Mississippi Valley State HC 2018-22, Mississippi Valley State DC 2015-2017, Paine DC 2014, Jackson State Safties 2012-2013
Actual P5 assistant coaching experience on staff is Shurmur back in 1988-98, and Phillips in short stints. That's it nobody else has been an actual P5 assistant before.
The 4 returning assistants
Hart and Mathis have only coached at Trinity Christian HS and Jackson State before Colorado.
Harrell, Bartolone have experience at a variety of small college and G5 schools like Alabama State, FAU, Howard, Bowie State, Morgan State, Florida A&M, Texas Southern, Whittier College, St Lawrence, Carleton College, and Nevada then they both coached for Sanders at Jackson State.
No wonder they keep bragging about years in the NFL as the collective experience at Major College Football is very poor.
So what where these 6 new coaches doing before hired by Sanders:
Shurmur - Unemployed for a year after Broncos fired him
Livingston - Secondary coach for Bengals
Loadholt - Oklahoma Offensive Analyst
Lewis - hired as an analyst from Seahowk assistant DL coach then promoted to DL coach this year
Phillips - Hamilton Tiger-Cats WR coach
Dancy - hired as an analyst from Mississippi Valley State HC (he resigned but was 10-38 as HC), then promoted to OLB coach this year
The other 4 Hart, Mathis, Harrell and Bartolone came from Jackson St with Sanders before last season.